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  2. THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

    The council of tho Congregational Union resumed its sittings yesterday afternoon, the Rev. Osrio Copeland presiding. MORTALITY COMMITTEE. ...

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  3. AMUSEMENTS.

    The last performance of the Pointsman was given at the Princess's Theatre last night, and this evening a programme of a widely different nature will be presented. ...

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  4. THE WEATHER.

    Up to 4 a.m. a rainfall of 1½ in. has been recorded. This almost equals an irrigation of the whole settlement, and will enable pumping operations to be suspended for a few days ...

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  5. MALLEE LANDS RESUMPTION BOARD.

    The departmental board appointed to inquire into the complaint that the lessees of certain mallee blocks had failed to fulfil the covenants of their leases in regard to the destruction of ...

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  6. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    A telegram has been received by the Postmaster-General from New Zealand, inquiring whether there would be any objection to cable messages being sent from New Zealand to ...

    Article : 343 words
  7. NOTES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    In the Golcnad (the Welch Calvinistic Methodist organ) there appears a characteristic letter to the editor from the pen of the eminent soienist, Professor Huxley, who, together with ...

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  8. ESTATE OF THE LATE DR. BEANEY.

    The validity of a bequest of £10,000 to the city of Canterbury by the late Dr. J. G. Beaney, M.L.C., was determined by Mr. Justice a'Beckett in the Practice Court yesterday. The ...

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  9. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    SIR,--The Rev. Thomas Copeland has certainly agitated the question of Methodist union with unwonted pertinacity. And in doing so he has been "ringing the changes" on the ...

    Article : 371 words
  10. QUEENSLAND.

    The Executive to-day decided that the death sentences on Gleson and Moncado, for murder at Prince of Wales Island and Thursday Island respectively, be carried out on Monday ...

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  11. SOUTH AUSTRALIA

    At the police court to-day a respectable looking man named Charles Herbert Goodwin was committed for trial for forging the name of Alfred Jabez Roberts, sharebroker, for the ...

    Article : 148 words
  12. PERPETUAL EXECUTORS COMPANY.

    The sixteenth ordinary meeting of this company wag held at the office, 46 Queen-street, yesterday afternoon, Mr. T. Loader in the chair. There wag a very email attendance of ...

    Article : 352 words
  13. SPIES IN WAR.

    Napoleon's Italian blood and training, added to the profound distrust with which he regarded everyone about him, and especially those of generous, lofty and unselfish ...

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  14. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    SIR,--The thanks of the Christian, and especially the Methodist, public are due to you for permission to ventilate this question in your pages. No doubt in such an important step we ...

    Article : 800 words
  15. ARREST OF DETECTIVE THOMPSON'S ASSAILANT.

    The violence that rescued John M'Donald, Detective Thompson's prisoner, was wasted energy, for at a little before noon yesterday the Brunswick police captured the escape, ...

    Article : 371 words
  16. WEST AUSTRALIA

    Mr. Blackbourne, the engineer of defences, leaves for Melbourne shortly. He has formally handed over to the mayor the library he has collected for the use of the garrison. The ...

    Article : 230 words
  17. METHODIST UNION.

    SIR,--I would like to say to "A Senior Wesleyan Minister" that my letter was written in reply to what he published on the 24th September, and not what he has written since. ...

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  18. ACCIDENT AT THE WERRIBEE SEWERAGE WORKS.

    Frederick Green wag admitted into tho Melbourne Hospital yesterday evening from the sewerage works at Worribee, suffering from injuries to his back. It ...

    Article : 64 words
  19. TASMANIA.

    In the Assembly to-night a debate or considerable length took place on the question of appointing a select committee to review the public works approved of last year. ...

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  20. A COMPOSITION OF A FARTHING IN THE POUND.

    Application was made to Judge Molesworth, in the Insolvency Court yesterday, for the release from sequestration of the estate of James W. Wallace, of Kew, civil servant, on the ...

    Article : 602 words
  21. TOTAL ABSTINENCE IN THE BIBLE.

    SIR,--I thank the dean for his reply, in which he recognises that my letter is characterised by a spirit of fairness and good sense. With reference to the communication from " Tokay," I ...

    Article : 791 words
  22. THE WOMEN'S HOSPITAL.

    The committee of management of the Women's Hospital met yesterday, Mrs. Munce, vice-president, in the chair. The report from the infirmary department ...

    Article : 340 words
  23. FIRE IN COLLINS-STREET.

    The firemen were called out soon after 6 o'clock last evening to subdue a fire which was burning on the roof of the high promises which are being erected at the corner of Collins and ...

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  24. PUBLIC TENDERS.

    The railway construction branch of the Board of Land and Works yesterday accepted the following tenders:--C. Magginess, 2000 posts, £2 10s. per 100; V. E. Parker, 1000 at £2 10s. per 100; E. Murphy, ...

    Article : 198 words
  25. THE BONDAGE OF BARMAIDS.

    SIR,--I venture to send you the following account of my recent experience in trying as a barmaid to earn my own living, thinking if you published it it might come under the notice of ...

    Article : 482 words
  26. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    SIR,--My attitude hitherto in relation to this question has been that of an inactive but deeply interested observer, prepared to listen to the arguments advanced on both sides with a mind ...

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  27. THE WOMENS SHILLING FUND.

    Mrs. Don, the honorary treasurer of the "Women's Hospital, acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the following additional contributions:-- ...

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  28. THE OLD COLONISTS' ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA.

    SIR,--In reply to the letter in your issue of this date, signed "Fair Play," re tho admission to the homes of the above association, I would ask, first, is "Fair Play " a governor, life ...

    Article : 372 words
  29. PREMIER PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY.

    SIR,--I ask as a great favor a little of your valuable space on behalf of us poor depositors in the above society. I deposited £300 two months before it closed the doors and have not received ...

    Article : 246 words
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  31. DURHAM V. WATSON AND OTHERS.

    SIR,--In your issue of to-day a paragraph appears in reference to this case, which we have to request you to modify, namely:-- "That the plaintiff had to pay £45 1s. out of pocket, and ...

    Article : 161 words
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